➳ཉིཾ𝒟𝑒𝓂𝑜𝓃 𝒮𝓁𝒶𝓎𝑒𝓇༄↝ᴷⁱᵐᵉᵗˢᵘ ⁿᵒ ᵞᵃⁱᵇᵃ ༄°❅

Chapter 10

"Your session is complete, you did excellent!" Akari exclaimed loudly and hugged Kyojuro, but he winced. "Oh, dear! Did I do it too hard? Sorry, here take some mints!" Akari says, giving him a mint, and Kyojuro puts it into his mouth and inwardly sighs with relief. "Thank you for your training, Akari San." He says bowing gratefully. Akari waved goodbye and dashed beside Shinobu. "It's time for your training." She says gently, Shinobu jumped, causing her to almost fall, and Akari grabbed hold of her and put her down steadily.

"You could've walked up to me like a normal person!" Shinobu huffed and followed Akari down the corridor and outside. "I've heard that you are not strong enough to cut a demon's head off, is that true?" Akari says tilting her head. Shinobu looked very offended but nodded. "Well, this session is about how to chop off a demon's head!" Akari says enthusiastically, and Shinobu looks a little bit uncertain. "Come on!" Akari urged. "How hard can it be?" Shinobu inwardly sagged, knowing the answer was super hard. "You just need bigger hands, more muscle, more willpower and confidence!" Akari says all in one breath.

"Sounds like a lot to me!" Shinobu says, already losing confidence in her power. "Would you like Douma to kill you?" Akari asks Shinobu lightly. "Easy answer, no!" Shinobu says without any hesitation. "Then cut off my head!" Akari screeches. "And no, poison won't end me, so don't even try," Akari says, and Shinobu looks uneasy again. Akari saw that Shinobu did have the heart of ending demons, but not the perfect body so she thought of something else to help her 'Third form: Body Muscle growth', she whispered silently.

Shinobu felt a surge of power in her hands and watched in shock as her hands became bigger and felt more strength in her arms. She swung her blade and to her amazement her blade cut half into Akari's head. "Good, good!" Akari purrs loudly, and Shinobu cracks a smile. Shinobu swung the blade even harder and felt her muscles ache, then to her pure excitement, Akari's head swung off. "We're making progress today!" Akari says, and a cyclone of feathers erupted and her head was back onto her neck.

"Now attack me as if I was an upper demon, preferably at least three," Akari said smiling, Shinobu nodded, and Akari attacked, Shinobu jumped super high and landed behind her meters behind Akari, and Akari turned around and swiped at her, but Shinobu chopped her arm off, and Akari's blood splattered down her face, and Akari used her other arm to swipe at Shinobu, but Shinobu cut her arm off, and ran behind her, in great speed and cut off Akari's head, and felt a strange strength and touched to see that she had horns.

Akari gritted her teeth and immediately regrew all her limbs and lunged at Shinobu, but Shinobu chopped her head off and Akari shook her arms and focused again. "You're not killing her, are you?" Akari scolded herself and engulfed herself in a cyclone of feathers. "Good job Shinobu, much better." She says bowing, and Shinobu runs back inside. Giyu appeared behind her, and Akari turned back, her hand ready to attack and saw him and blew a sigh of relief.

"I was about to attack, thinking you were someone who shouldn't be here!" She exclaims and Giyu laughs and lightly kisses her forehead. "I am pretty scary-" he says teasing Akari and Akari crosses her arms and growls. "No, you're not, you're INTIMIDATING!" Akari squeaks loudly. "That's the same thing!" Giyu says roaring with laughter. "Two more things," Giyu says in a serious voice and Akari straightens her back to listen. Giyu paused for a moment and Akari took this chance to take in his beautiful face, his mark, his beautiful face and his dark blue eyes.

"Can you become human?" He asks curiously and Akari nods and turns into a human. Giyu nods with satisfaction and pats her head, and he realises she has the fox mask and a katana. "What's the second thing?" Akari asks with great curiosity. "Don't risk your life to protect me." Giyu finishes and Akari shakes her head crazily. "Nope, there is no way, I cannot have another person walk out of my life, I will never agree to that in any of my lifetimes," Akari says, and Giyu interrupts. "I cannot have another person walk out of my life," he says, and he looks really upset.

"I will try not, but there are no promises," Akari says finally. "Same here," Giyu says, and Akari makes a mental note to put an invisible shield on him, Actually why not now? Akari silently murmured 'Seventeenth form: Invisible feather shield', and was glad that Giyu didn't notice. "I think Tanjiro is still gone at the 'mysterious city' that is hidden from everyone," Akari says, and Giyu nods. Muichiro suddenly appeared beside Akari and snatched her fox mask. And pulled a face.

"You. Are. Dead." Akari says angrily, but somehow her voice comes out all squeaky and Giyu and Muichiro both burst out laughing and are laughing so hard that Akari could sense that their stomachs were hurting. "Laugh all you want but that's not gonna kill demons." She says, and they slowly bring to a stop their laughing. "I'm going off to the village to get the 'key', and do some training tomorrow morning." Muichiro says, straightening his legs and went off to his room. Giyu narrowed his eyes and shrugged. "What's up with you and Muichiro?" Giyu asks suspiciously. "I like to think he was my brother, we're not dating like you and I, and plus I hate injustice so I don't believe in secret backstabbing between faithful lovers, I would tell you if I did, promise." Akari says seriously and Giyu believes her.

After a night of good sleep in the forest, Akari found that she was lying on Giyu's arm, and immediately sat up. "Eek! I'm sorry Giyu San!" She exclaims loudly and Giyu opens his eyes slightly then closes it again due to the sunlight. "I was wondering why my arm felt so numb." He joked and Akari blew a sigh of relief that he didn't sound mad, but just to make sure she sniffed the air. Nope. No sign of anger but a slight tingle of annoyance. Muichiro found them and he narrowed his eyes in amusement. "While you lovebirds slowly and painful get off from each other I'm going to the village to train." He said full of amusement, and dashed off.

Akari threw an invisible feather to the ground, and an invisible cat followed Muichiro, just in case, Akari couldn't have more people she loved to walk out of her life. The thing is, she can see exactly what her cat sees, and hears and whatever just like she was here. Another upside is that her clone has the same power as she herself has, so she feels very secure knowing that Muichiro is safe under her clone's watchful eye.

Muichiro was running as swiftly as the wind but the cat wasn't finding it hard to follow him, which is common sense, cats are faster than humans. "Akari?" Came Giyu's voice and Akari got back into the present. "I'm listening," Akari says patiently. "Because you are 'human' now, you should start eating normal food, you get me?" Giyu says. "Uh, sure but I'm making them, and getting the ingredients myself," Akari says and Giyu sighs. "Stop being so humble." He said in a frustrated tone that sounded squeaky. He realised that and Akari giggled, he tried glaring at her to stop but he started laughing too. Akari went back to the cat's perspective, in the eyes of the cat Michiro looked beautiful under the wisteria tree and looked oh so powerful.